Putnam County is offering its employees an early retirement incentive program where municipal workers with at least 10 years of full-time employment will be able to retire this year with incentive benefits. More...

Earle Bellows has been named as Rotarian of the Year by the Lake Mahopac Rotary Club. Rotary President James Meyer congratulated Bellows last week when presenting him with a handsome plaque describing Bellows as a man who epitomizes what Rotary More...

State Senator Greg Ball, R-Patterson, chairman of the Senate Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs Committee, has again been ranked as New York’s most “Independent Senator” by the New York Public Interest Research Group. More...

The proposed sales tax holiday on clothing and footwear for 2013 has hit a snag, apparently because some in the State Assembly fear it would cause competition between neighboring counties as opposed to attracting business into the state from outside. More...

Registration is currently being accepted for a wide variety of programs in the arts to take place this summer at the Belle Levine Art Center on Kennicut Hill Road in Mahopac. Details, prices, bios, registration info and forms available at putna More...

Join the German-American Club in Putnam Valley under a giant party tent, rain or shine, on Saturday July 20, from 3 - 10 p.m., and Sunday July 21, Noon - 8 p.m., at Kramer’s Pond Rd, Putnam Valley. Enjoy live German music and a variety of More...

LEGAL NOTICE Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”). Name: Somers II Senior Associates LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on 6/24/13. N.Y. More...

Breaking News - 7/12/2013 5:01 PM

Call them firefighter heroes! A dozen members of the Brewster and Carmel Fire Departments risked their own safety Friday morning while rescuing a Carmel man whose vehicle crashed and overturned several times before plummeting down a steep embank More...

Putnam’s alarming rate of foreclosure actions continues to rise at a fast pace. First Deputy County Clerk Michael Bartolotti reported last week 289 foreclosures had been initiated for the first six months of 2013—more than double th More...

The Fourth of July fireworks display took on a frightening scene Thursday night when debris from the pyrotechnics began falling onto the large crowd gathered at the Highlands Shopping Center in Southeast. More...

When it comes to illegal drug trafficking in Putnam County, police are taking a zero tolerance view. Cops on the state, county, town and village levels have rounded up 56 individuals during the past two months in an effort to eradicate the cont More...

Preparation for Putnam’s 42nd annual 4-H Fair is in full swing and last week at its regular monthly meeting, the county Legislature proclaimed the week of July 22-28 as Putnam County 4-H Fair Week. More...

Summer is here and you know what that means .... It’s time to get your dirty dogs ready for the Putnam Humane Society DOG WASH! The Putnam Humane Society is having its Annual Dog Wash Day of the summer on Saturday, August 3rd, from More...

For the past two years the overwhelming generosity of area residents has enabled a group of Putnam Valley students to deliver 160 backpacks loaded with school supplies to PS 236/173 in the Bronx as well as an additional 100 + to the Oakside Elementar More...

The Alumni dinner at the Brewster House was attended by about seventyfive people. The prominent guests were President Vreeland, members of the board of education and faculty of the High School. Harry Wells presided. More...

Mary McCaffrey Dewhirst passed away on July 3, 2013, in Arlington, Va. Born in New York City on January 17th, 1925, she was the second child of Catherine and Daniel McCaffrey and sister to Frances, Jerry and Theresa. More...